IEP help please....

[Flowertop]

Hi my DS1 has an IEP. Long story but because his school is so appalling we are having to go private in September. The school have not taken our move well and as such have been less than helpful. So in the post I received his IEP update today and do not understand some of the terminology so wondered if someone could help:

Targets: to learn SME words 95% success ai, oa, ir, ou,ea,ay, ing, ur, aw, oi, er...

This is the one I don't understand. So I need to know a) what it means and b) strategies that can be used to help him reach his targets before we start his new school.
I would be grateful for any help.

bump for you.

my son has an iep too, i know some of the language used in them seems double dutch

(Also a teacher and don't understand.)

Ask the school for a list of the words or the test they will use to to assess him. Failing that, you'll have to make up your own words with those sounds!

Well yes, but what is sme? Perhaps some sort of scheme they use?

Thanks all. I think over the hols I will get some words together with these sounds and get him to read and spell them. Also need to work on his tables and then reading. Trouble is although his new school is non selective (we would never have got in otherwise)I don't want him to feel that his bottom of the class.
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"Spelling made easy" by Violet Brand - at a guess I'd say!
The targets then would be to spell words with these sounds rather than reading them.
You can buy this book, or just make up words with that pattern.
www.amazon.co.uk/Spelling-Made-Easy-Introductory-level/dp/1904421008/ref=pd_bbs_sr_ 1/203-9947989-4455907?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185045543&sr=8-1

thanks twinsplus1 I will order the book!
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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has used Spelling Made Easy by Violet Brand, and what they thought of it?
Thanks x

I don't know that scheme (would be interested to find out). We normally focus on many fewer sounds, really over learn spelling and reading them and work on strategies to get them into daily work (usually through target words/sounds) checking when reading, or redrafting. They're not really embedded until they are transferred appropriately to daily work, 'automatically.'

Nessy is a good scheme, you can buy a single version for home computer use.